The wind is very predictable. There is a cold front blowing through. For over a week now we knew that on Friday the wind was going to come up from the ENE at 25 knots gusting 30. The wind is slowly clocking around to the SE over the next two days until it drops but not completely. The wind is forecast to be up for nearly 8 more days.

Any person with common sense should know that if there was a fire before the winds increased on Friday it needed to be controlled/contained.

Once again the people that managed these things, sit with the thumbs in their asses making excuses that someone else started this fire yadayadayada.

Why in the Bahamas do people not get fired and sued for this shit. People need to be held accountable!!!

Let's not forget to mention all the polluted air that others on island are forced to breathe. If you think it's bad now wait for the wind to die 9 days from now, and it gets warm and the fire is smuldering.

Anyhow I am glad to not be in Nassau subjected to this shit.

The police force need to put their ego's aside, because they out-gunned, and not respected.

The RBDF isn't great either, but the more eyes on these gangster's, and hood-rats, the better.

I think we should use methods used in authoritarian Singapore.

"Singapore legalised abortion in 1970, some three years before the United States. However, in addition to the legalisation of abortion in Singapore there was a coordinated strategy and effort on the part of the then-PM Lee Kuan Yew government for Singapore mothers to stop giving birth after having two children. Penalties in the form of reduced child support and the additional accouchement (child delivery) fees and incentives such as priority school admission for children of later ligated mothers (yes, you read that correctly, ligation) make for painful reading some thirty years after the widespread government policy was implemented. Readers interested in the evolution and history of Singapore’s anti-natalist policies are encouraged to read this 2009 post for some background.

Most importantly, the anti-natalist policies in Singapore were specifically targeted at low-income and lower-educated groups, which are recognised as demographic groups more likely to turn to crime. Meanwhile as Singapore’s crime rate fell throughout the 1990s and 2000s, so too did its fertility rate, in part ensuring crimes would stay low decades in the future."

-https://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/what-explains-singapores-persistently-low-crime-rate/

Government needs to take control of poverty, and education, because poor people will resort to crime, etc.

Of course this will never happen in the Bahamas but if it did I would celebrate.

Simply put someone should be charged with a crime. At least of crime of negligence. We need to hold people accountable for neglecting another person, otherwise people will go around trying this stunt, to get rid of their unwanted children.

This police officer in the photos, jacket couldn't be more professional!

Come on he should not be allowed to wear that jacket around. This is the level most Bahamians accept. Pure slackness. The criminals look at these guys as jokes.

LMAO seriously????!!!

Waverunners do more harm to the mangroves. The jet from jetskis desturbs extremely delicate sea bottom.

The only way for them to patrol this would be on foot. Good luck convincing an RBDF or RBPF member to go into the mangroves to check for permits!

First of all I am not your comrade.

You are suggesting to tax anyone that lives behind a gate, based on the fact that they are more wealthy? Let me school you because you obviously too ignorant to understand that firstly not everyone that lives behind a gate has excess money.

There are many 'gated communities' some not quite as wealthy as Lyford, Albany, Port New Providence, Ocean Club Estates or Old Fort. Since we are taxing them all we have many others such as Sandyport, Brigadune, Fox Hill, Columbus Cove, Caves Point, Caves Heights, South Ocean, Love Beach Colonies, Balmoral, Dicks Pointe, and the list goes on and on and on to many that have far less financially successful property owners. Not only is the tax you suggest discriminatory, more taxes is more money given to the Bahamian government, that misappropriates funds, mismanages funds, and can't manage themselves as individuals, let alone consider managing an entire country.

Your comment seems as it comes out of jealousy and spite towards the wealthy, as your suggestion of a tax to support local public schools based on this article of this private group furthering education in this country through boarding school is downright wrong.

This is the same line of thought the PLP government uses, to take advantage of wealthy Bahamian business owners, and wealthy expats. Let's raise tax to solve the problem we have created. Let's convince Sarkis a wealthy resident to fund a multi billion dollar project and when it is 80% structurally complete, let's find a loop hole to misapropriate the project to serve our own interests.

Don't ever bite the hand that feeds you. That's what you and many other Bahamians do, they bite the hand that feeds them for their own self interests. If you tax the wealthy expats that choose to reside here they will leave. If you tax the old wealthy Bahamian business owning families more VAT they will close their business and many ignorant uneducated Bahamians will be out of a job.

You stay right there with your same rhetoric telling the PLP to tax everyone raise VAT etc. You stay right there saying people like Sarkis are the problem. When all the wealthy ex pats move to another country, and FDI is no more, the country will crumble.

All these assholes in government will be ok because of the multi-millions they have accumulated through misapropriation and cronie deals.

They will leave us all with nothing; our property value will plummet, our BSD will be devalued, and taxes such as VAT will only increase along with crime and unemployment, and we will live in a failed state.

Your an asshole, and your ignorant so you likely will subscribe to the abovementioned things. SMH

First of all this would be a very socialist tax. While your at it why don't you suggest to tax people based on the color of their skin. Give me a fucking break!

Why coudln't you

TalRussell your a flipping idiot. That is called socialism, and is non-democratic PLP foolishness. The people that will be going to this school will be the children of wealthy Xpats, the type of people that choose very carefully where and who to donate to. You want the government to levy another tax to the rich that keep this country afloat, while the PLP collect VAT likely steal all our tax money and get the country continually downgraded. fuck you your an ignorant piece of shit.

What are we on pace for in 2017? 350, 400 murders for the year?...

This is a joke, and by that I mean not her accusation, but the way in which it will be handled by our corrupt system. She will wish she never attempted to pursue this in a few days. It will go nowhere and she will only get enraged by the way in which our country handles this. Very sad.